Book description
Success on the web is measured by usage and growth. Web-based companies live or die by the ability to scale their infrastructure to accommodate increasing demand. This book is a hands-on and practical guide to planning for such growth, with many techniques and considerations to help you plan, deploy, and manage web application infrastructure.
The Art of Capacity Planning is written by the manager of data operations for the world-famous photo-sharing site Flickr.com, now owned by Yahoo! John Allspaw combines personal anecdotes from many phases of Flickr's growth with insights from his colleagues in many other industries to give you solid guidelines for measuring your growth, predicting trends, and making cost-effective preparations.
Topics include:
- Evaluating tools for measurement and deployment
- Capacity analysis and prediction for storage, database, and application servers
- Designing architectures to easily add and measure capacity
- Handling sudden spikes
- Predicting exponential and explosive growth
- How cloud services such as EC2 can fit into a capacity strategy
In this book, Allspaw draws on years of valuable experience, starting from the days when Flickr was relatively small and had to deal with the typical growth pains and cost/performance trade-offs of a typical company with a Web presence. The advice he offers in The Art of Capacity Planning will not only help you prepare for explosive growth, it will save you tons of grief.
Publisher resources
Table of contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- 1. Goals, Issues, and Processes in Capacity Planning
- 2. Setting Goals for Capacity
- 3. Measurement: Units of Capacity
- 4. Predicting Trends
- 5. Deployment
- A. Virtualization and Cloud Computing
- B. Dealing with Instantaneous Growth
- C. Capacity Tools
- Index
- About the Author
- COLOPHON
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: The Art of Capacity Planning
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2008
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9780596518578
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